Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1930, Page 17

FAMILY BELIEVES FORMER NAVY MAN TOOKHIS OWNLIFE Relatives Accept Evidence of Note Rather Than Verdict of Coroner’s Jury. TATTOO MARK ON ARM HELPS IN IDENTIFICATION Charles J. Tollefson Found With Head Injuries That Might Have Followed Death. Police and members of the family »f Charles J. Tollefson, retired chief boatswain’s mate of the Navy, whose body was taken from the Potomac River late Priday, two months after he disap- from his home at 529 Tenth street southeast, were prepared last neceg&:n explanation that he his own 3 ¥ §§!§ 0 ff g H i T Egs EE 3 ! 3 gy bt ] e APARTMENT IS ROBBED. Woman Leaves Door Unlocked and Thief Gets Cash and Papers. A door which Mrs. vis Arrington of forgot to lock 1,000 WOMEN EXPECTED AT ADVERTISING MEET ins President of World Federation Is Here to Arrange for Con- vention in May. Anticipation that over 1,000 women will attend the convention of the Ag; committee tising Club of Washington. —— PURSE SNATCHER FLEES. Tall Colored Man Grabs Woman’s Purse on Seventh Street. CHARLES Y. TOLLOFSON. CAPITAL AIRPORT SITEIS APPROVED = Planning Commission Favors Memorial Bridge Location at Reasonable Figure. ‘The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission late yesterday ap- proved the site chosen by the Bingham Congressional Commission for the sion said, in all probability will serve | ¥ as a satisfactory temporary airport until State in stone of the days of Cities W, Ellot, 24, eity planner of ‘commission, explained that his per- is that along the Ave- will git tire consideration, in col- on with the staff of GARS ELUDE POLICE INTHRILLING CHASE Man, Haited by Bullet, Charged With Trying to Block Officers. iy v A, o DISCLAIMS CONNECTION WITH ESCAPED AUTOS Pursuers Lose Bumper From Ma- chine in Effort to Stop Motor Car. Cutting from left to right at high along avenue and Four- speed Georgla = teenth street, and pedestrian traffic in & mad rush for lom, two automobiles, thought to the police last chase that iver Spring on the contain , eluded ight m“m": started , 24, who gave two Wi IDISTRICT WOMEN R Wg Above: Mrs. A. B. McMANUS. Below: MRS. JAMES M. DORAN. 2 EARLY ACTION DUE g & & | | i s it Fé?- s5as i : Fe b 5 i q I 3 ] L | ] H § 2 i i g ef f H = 3 £ 3 3 § g e : I H {1 oAt UE 258 i COLORED CLERGYMAN DIES IN FREEDMEN’S HOSPITAL Rev. John Roberts Served 50 Years as Spiritual Adviser at Distriet Jail. serve during the heavy rains and added | prisons that it contemplates the reduction of trict government like situation is presented in the case of the new warehouse that it will not be made public now. the (:lape'e -cn.mt:‘;l b k- fl:hu: T- -pus measure, which was lhepd“ before the Sgnate District committee Priday. The commission and its staff attended the hearing in a body and the legislative ge of the tion. Other wmm-wr:hmg:b- :muifoxwk and playground develop- men! “ne| GARDEN CLUB TO MEET. Mrs. Hyman Arks Divorce. Mrs. Alma S. Hyman, 3909 Harrison street, has filed suif for an absolute divorce from V. Hyman, whom lh.ncmu wil at & hotel in it with an’unnamed vonu!x‘l' 1921, and have one ¢hild, who is resid with ‘mother’s its at Sand. ersville, Ga. The husband deserted 1927, and has not #ince contributed the support of his family. She is rep- ru:n.ml by Attorney. Alfred Schwaris. Takoma Association to Hear L. H. Flint Speak. ‘The Takoma Horticultural Club will xfié"w" :‘mh d‘ tcz:r streets, i an Takoma Park, D. C., tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. i of tative funeral arran ts for services to be held w'e:gf;‘ ntt;;? noon at 1 o'clock. Interment wi A in Harmony Cemetery. HIRES y REVUE MAY 5-6 PLANNED tearns, BY YOUNG MEN’S CLUB | aiong the Minstrel Show Is Planned by Or- ganization as Benefit for St. Paul’s Church. ‘The Young Men’s Club of St. Paul's Chureh, Fifteenth and V stree ON DISTRICT BILLS ez 7 |$115,000,000 Public Building oy Fund Proposal and Retire- ment Are Advanced. Capper Keeps Busy. Chairman Capper and his colleagues on the District committee have taken of the near the south end of is in the hands of the tee, also wait- mentioned to es- committee. not yet sul measure to the 3 The committee. also will endeavor in the near future to complete considera- tion of the Cramton Park devel bill, which has- already PROBE IS ORDERED INTO BOY’S DEATH Truck Driver Is Held Awaiting Findings Tomorrow of Coroner’s Jury. ent the A coroner’s jury will open an inquiry ing into ecircumstances 10, of 6232 jured beneath the truck yesterdsy when he attempted to run across Georgia avenue, near Rit- tenhouse street. Benjamin Williamson, driver of the truck, is being Neo. 13 verdict. S ™ i Jefe home Iost pre- lic School, - vion [ aceldent to enjoy the m 1, e:eland. 2 3. they were walking 'h:nvlm'zhrg s, will produce a minstrel revue for the benefit | & | of the church May 5 and 6, it was l.nnmmrd 3 RO The following committees have named: Executive, J. L. Hall, chair- man; gubl.lcuy,l.A. 3 J. H. Nevin; program, H. O'Neill. ln.le ‘women of the parish are be- for the cast. PEDESTRIAN INJURED. George Jenkins Steps From Truck and Is Hit by Machine. George Jenkins, 50 years old, of 621 .| WOMEN’S CLINIC OPENS NEW BRANCH DISPENSARY Unit Treats Patients Without Dis- tinction of Race or Creed at Nominal Charge. A new branch of the Women's Clinic, ! which has for Princeton , was reported in a mwmm-zsunmmknm. Dr. after he was struck by an auto- W‘h‘fln ‘while the Baltimore , Md., late yes- stepped from a truck on the Mmmdb;-m&l;hcm s car operated 23 - shaw of }?‘M ‘Twenty-fourth northeast, him. Openshaw was ar- rested by Hyattsville police and later released on bond. Jenkins was treated by Dr. Louls Jimal for & skull fracture. ‘The rs have ibmitted their views on this | 1o ‘committee. | FORM REPUBLICAN DRY ORGANIZATION W. C. T. U. Leaders Head Group to Support Hoover’s Enforcement Plans. MRS. GEORGE ROSS MADE TENTATIVE CHAIRMAN League to Meet With Democratic Group Temporarily—To Keep Voters Informed. Determined to aid in giving Wash- ington and the Nation better law en- forcement, particularly with reference to prohibition, a group of Republican woimen of the District of Columbia have uwu the District of Columiba Re- ican Woman's Law Enforcement fluuo. A temporary has been perfected and in about a month a permanent structure will be Mrs. Doran ¥s Treasurer. The tentative officials of this new law-enforcement group are prominently identified with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in the National Mrs. George A. Ross has the District W. C. ;hfyu ';e pmidn:{ . C. T. U. an of the Northwest Union. Mrs. A. B. McManus, one of the assoclate direc- tors of District been prohibition commissioner, president of the District W. C. T. U. and president of the Mount Pleasant Union, is treasurer of the newly formed Mrs. Ross declined last night to go mwmmmcm organiza- dry group cratic Law g{m‘mflm District of Columbia for a her group is better organized. First Club of Kind. “This is the first Republican Law Enforcement Club to be organized to support President Hoover and the ad- ministration in carrying out their the people for better law sald a brief announce- R 'k o v in the States to support only can- didates “who stand squarely for law enforcement,” the announcement said. NEW POLICE CLASS TOBEGIN TRAINING Intensive Course Ahead for Rookies, Who Are Placed in New Group. e, until eoul'sel ;Iul;‘“ wm’mnm, 14 und " tut Sergt. O. S. Hunt. 5 Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent police, ed 20 officers to class *1n secordance with ‘May. Bratts policy 01? give ‘“be Dew o course of training tailing to_active duty. 2 . The personnel of the new class fol- GENERAL WOMAN TELLS JUDGE WHERE TO GO—FELLOW JURIST REPLIES 60 Days Is Added to Her Sentence for Remark Aimed at McMahon. Given Orders Extra Jail Term When He Revokes Pro- bation Writ. Having had lessons in jurisprudence from Judges Isaac R. Hitt and John P. McMahon, Miss Dorothy M. Davis, 24 years old, took a pointer or two in Police Court yesterday from Judge Ralph Given. “Let the judge do the talking,” was the last text, and Miss Davis got 60 days in which to memorize it. The defendant, the court was in- formed, had muttered “go to hell” shortly after Judge Mc gave her 30 days on a charge of tapping & gas mal Several weeks viously Miss Davis mvmfll:! whenp;:nlmregud several Wi she hours late for her own trial. mflu :x the latter con- | fu to Jus G Miss Davis g:' prohmuon'm Pebnnrymm two = STONESMAY CLEAR ALPHABET'S ORIGIN 14 New Inscriptions Are Found by C. U.-Harvard Joint Expedition. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Amid the ruins of the temple of Hathor, Egyptian goddess of love and beauty, on the iteau of Serabit-el- Khaden in the ‘The discovery, of the faculty, is likely to establish con- clusively that the alphabet, from wi ‘modern and the invention of wi the great forward steps of are derived was one of the the nearby mines B. C. curious with characters like Egyptian hiero- udhlumc'hhhhewldmtheu’m- according their Egyptia Fiinders. Fetrie, Engish xpiorer, who , W] made copies of them. writing into arbitrary for consonants of the itic tongue. Munster Transiated Them. ‘Then the was taken up in Germany, where Prof. Grimme of Mun- ster translated them and made the sen- sational announcement that they con- tained the names of Moses and princess who rescued him from the ‘This, if true, would have furnished s remarkable authentification Egypt. ‘This interpretation was open to much dispute, due to the vagueness of the new appointees a | signs It was not until the Spring of 1927 uucm fessors, . | Petrie’s finds but one. R ARCHBISHOP CURLEY TO SPEAK TOMORROW Sodelity Union to Hold Annual Mass Meeting at Gonzaga Auditorium. , Arch- bmm“vnnbr.\l T the evel muun.otthen‘. e they conferred with Prof. Butin, who was then head of the American School of Oriental Studies in Jerusalem and an accomplished Semitic scholar. Hebrew, Greek, Roman and ing DOROTHY M. DAVIS. ~—Star Staff Photo. prohibition enforcement counts, where- added 60 days to 30-day Miss Davis was convicted by a Police Court jury last week on the gas- tap- ping charge, and passage of sentence was deferred until yesterday. ‘The young woman, on being led from the court room, was quoted as having said she had nothing to say. CHARITY UNITS ASK NEWS ORATORY CONTEST ENROLLMENT MARK SET WITH 14529 72 High Schools Will Compete in_Evening Star Area Clashes. CENTRAL HIGH LEADS WITH 2,681 ENTERED Eleven Distriot Winners Will Bat- tle for Right to Go Into Finals, With 14,520 students partici in its m't’l‘:g" - D OF ENPLOYERS 52 Twofold Use of Funds Pos- sible if Applicants Are Given Work. An to o cleaning, ald another family. Those sign- eucuflu‘”.l m: u& A-ochs' vflofi sm:lu: Rev, O’Dm.dw Asher, commander of the Sal- Soutive diresior of the Jewish Welfare m,:“wh-:l"h‘u Mh't‘e: make, cellar ashes gx& § | g £ g Ez% E g 358385 L g £ £ g §§ H : g T g5 £ E j i | E i § §§ 13 g ggzfi iEs 5 H £= 1§ : bt £E i 4 1 & 3 i E 3 vi: |PIONEERS TO HAVE PLACE IN DAKOTA CELEBRATION De- | Reception and Banquet to Be Given buck of the University of Leyden, Hol land; Dr. Silvis, a fellow gl‘ the Gu Sodality { will be precinct awaiting the jury's the the score. representative attendance from afilias sodalities is Miss Mary president of the tiing] will it - 3 T R Tt recen! was MARINES SEEK RECRUITS. Enlistment in Corps Reserves Pro- gressing Here. in the Marine Re- m—mm-lmmnammn. 20th Marines, will be % §§§;i§ ;ég £ § ] : 2 : 855, E g% [ Eggg (L This Afternoon at 40th Anni- versary of Statehood. ;:ggifsz al ] BE & BEEEE.E is i atnl £ 5 g ] £ § P Fhaaiss i iag‘ g! ber 25. or|NATIONAL SOCIETY S. A. R. it Executive %5 § bl T ¢ i E=§ ifigségig TO FIGHT COMMUNISM Committee Considers Anti-Propaganda for Recom-